*POV Jack
Mom keeps looking at me and suddenly pulls me into a deep hug. Embraced by her I can feel her shaking as she started to sob. "I'm sorry Jack, I'm sorry."
"Its okay mom" I try to calm her down.
"No its not!" *sniff "I know you've been looking forward to today's dinner." she crys into my ear.
"Its alright, its not your fault mom." I tell her.
"But it is" *sniff "my fault. Your dad is right I'm just a dump selfish Bunny" she weeps to me.
'Okay what is going on? Didn't she just say its because dad's stubbornness?' I pull out of her embrace and put my paws on her shoulders.
"mom...mom!" I try to get her attention but she just keeps sobbing. "MAMA!" That got her attention. I guess since it was my first word it holds some special meaning to her. She finally looks at me still having her big round eyes full of tears.
"What happened? Why are you two fighting?" I ask her with the most calm and caring voice I can manage.
She drops her glance down again "It's because of your grandma" she manages to whisper.
"Grandma Bon? What happened, did grandpa hide a Taser in the care package again?" I ask her knowing its not really about her parents. But like I hoped it got a little chuckle out of her, lighten the mood a bit.
"No not grandma Bon, its about your dad's mom, your other grandma. He refuses to tell me anything about her. All I know is she exists. So today at work while your dad was in uncle Bogo's office I finally lost my patience and decided to look her up in the ZPD system. But no matter how much I kept searching I couldn't find a Mrs. Wilde in the whole of Zootopia. So while was distracted searching the system Nick came back without me noticing and saw that I was searching for his mother. He got angry but due to being still at work he decided to talk at home about it. Here things escalated and he got furious and left." she tells me while her voice starts to clear up.
'So its really about this. As much as they tell each other everything, this is the one thing that dad, like mom said, is ridiculously stubborn about.' I let out a heavy sigh.
"I'm really sorry Jackie I just wanted you to have a complete family so I..I" she continues.
"Its okay mom I also want the family to be whole again. Also its no surprise that you couldn't find grandma" I interrupt her.
"Ha? Wha... Why?" Mom stares at me with a big Questionmark above her head.
"A couple of years ago dad talked to me about grandma"
"HE DID?" She jumps at me.
I push her back down gently signalling her to stay calm.
"Yes he did, I think he thought I was too young and would forget it anyway" I answered.
'What it totally reasonable to think as I was not even a year old. Well bad luck for him'
"What did he tell Jack? What do you remember?" The excited bunny in front of me asks.
"He told me that his father died half a year after they divorced. He was trying to build a theme park, but he died due to a hearth attack. Dad and his mom fought a lot after that, and two years later when he was about 12, grandma decided to change her last name back to her maiden name. Dad was really angry about that and they fought again. Grandma told him to never come back." I explain to her what dad told me all those years ago.
"Oh sweetie I'm sorry that I made you remember such a sad story, but he wouldn't by any chance have told you your grandmas name would he? She asks with pleading eyes.
'Seems like a chance to repair this family presented itself earlier than I hoped' I think smirking.
"Viola Vulperce" I tell her keeping up that sly smirk I inherited from my father. As soon as she registers that I indeed know grandma's name her eyes start to glow and she jumps at me picking me up in an embrace again twirling around laughing.
"Haha I love you so much my little genius!" She stops spinning and puts me down now also smirking while looking at the clock. Its currently almost 2pm. Her paws land on my shoulders and whispers to me "Let's go find your grandma."
Mom sprints upstairs and seconds later returns with her police laptop. She places it in the living room, logs in the police system and starts searching for grandma. After roughly 45 minutes of frustrated searching her ears suddenly stand up "I found something! 10 Years ago in a case of domestic abuse of the Couple Macner Race:Wolfs a neighbour named Mrs. Vulperce Race: Fox! called the police because she thought it escalated. The address is in the outskirts of the Rainforest district!" she says while jumping up and down excitedly.
She prints out the address and runs to the entrance grabbing me while running past. "Lets go sweetie we're going to visit your grandma!" Outside the house she notices that Dad took our Family car. "Oh sweet cheese and crackers , good thing we also brought back police cruiser today"
"Why did you bring the police cruiser anyway? I found that already weird when I arrived earlier." I ask.
"Uncle Bogo wants us at the Buck Central Square first thing in the morning as the anti interspecies groups plan a mass demo so we were ordered to go there directly." Mom answers while unlocking the car.
"Oh seems like those guys just wont give up" I say while jumping on the passenger seat.
"No they don't sweetie but it got a lot better and some day they might learn to accept us. Now put the seatbelt on please."
The drive to the address in the Rainforest district takes about 20 minutes. We arrive in average looking neighbourhood full of townhouses stacked next to each other . The houses don't look like they have been built a long time ago. I guess they are 15 to 20 years old, Grandma must have moved here after she had the quarrel with Dad.
*POV Judy
'This neighbourhood looks not as save and welcoming as ours' I thought while driving up to the address of my Mother in Law that I finally found due to my amazing little son. After a couple of minutes I find the house number I've been looking for and stop the car across the street. I start to get really nervous.
'Is this how Nick felt when I dragged him to meet my parents back then?' I turn to my son and say "You wait in the car okay? Just in case this is the wrong house. I wave you over if its really your grandma." I tell Jack as I don't trust this neighbourhood and the police cruiser is the saves place here as its basically a tank.
He looks down on me and forms a light frown on his face "Wouldn't it have been better to change cloths? he asks me.
I don't really understand what he means as I'm still in my Uniform. Did I dirty it somewhere? Maybe he just thinks I should have wore something better looking?
"Its okay Jackie I want to show your grandma that your dad married and reliable and independent bunny." I assure him while leaving the car. Closing the door behind me I can hear him say "That's not..."
Whatever he wants to tell me surly has time till after this. I cross the street and walk up to the front door of the house I've been looking for. With each step I take towards it I get more nervous.
'Should you really do this without Nick? No he wouldn't budge even one millimetre if he knew about this. Will she like me? Is she maybe against interspecies relationships? OMG She will hate me for sure!' Question after question bombards my brain. My heath starts to race at an incredible speed as I can read " Vulperce" on the doorbell.
'You can do this Judy. You've worked against all odds and became a police officer. You've solved the biggest crime Zootopia ever seen. You can do this!' I force myself to think while extending my paw to the doorbell. As my paw connects with the button and I hear the bell ringing on the other side of the door my chest tightens and my nervous feeling increase even more. Moments later I can hear movement on the other side of the door and soon an elderly red vixen opens the door. Her fur is starting to turn grey around her muzzle and ears and she seems rather weak. I try to smile but nervousness prevents me from doing so.
"Mrs Viola Vulperce?" I ask her
"Yes that's me, how can I help you little bunny officer? She asks with a gentle voice "If it was the Sheep from across the street that called you here, I didn't do whatever she claims. She just doesn't like living near a Fox like myself." she continues while smiling gently.
"No Mrs. Vulprece I'm here to..." I stutter due to being so nervous looking at the ground "talk about your Son Nick." I finally manage to tell her.
Looking up I can see her eyes grow wide. Seeing this I get a bit of confidence but then she starts hyperventilating, takes a step back and falls to her knees shaking her head "No, No! Not my Nicky! I knew this day would come." she almost screams while crying. This is not the reaction I expected at all and I start to panic myself.
*POV Jack
I watch my mom as she walks over to the house and rings the doorbell obviously nervous. An elderly vixen that has to be my grandma opens the door and they start talking. I can see grandma smileat mom while telling her something. 'Maybe I was just overthinking this' I thought to myself while relaxing a bit.
Suddenly the elderly fox collapses and has an obvious panic attack! 'God dammit, I knew it! How can you show up in front of a mother that hasn't seen her son in almost 30 years in a police uniform. And mom surly only said "I want to talk about your son, Nick" or something along those lines out of habit' I think while rushing out of the car.
Speeding across the street I can hear mom say in panic "Oh no no! Nick is alright! Nick is perfectly fine!" I slow my pace down and slowly approach the two when I can hear grandma's sobbing voice cry "My Nicky is alive? You're not here because something happened to him?" I can now see the face of the old vixen relax a lot while mom starts again "Nick is perfectly healthy he is.."
I decide to interrupt mom and approach grandma to say "Are you alright grandma?"
Her face turns to a frown and she says "Who are you calling a grandma little boy? I'm still on..ly ..." she stops speaking as she turned to face me. Her eyes locked to stare at me in shock and she reaches out and puts her paw on my right cheek "This eye... you...but... what is your name little kit?" She manages to to ask.
I smile at her and say "Jack Savirous Wilde"
Her eyes almost pop out of it's sockets and her mouth is wide open. With a swift motion she turns to my mom obviously looking at the name on her badge that clearly reads Judy Wilde. "You..." is all she manages to say before she faints.
Both me and my mom rush to catch her as she collapses. "Grandma!""Mother in law!" After failing to wake her up we carry her inside and place her on the couch we found in the living room. The inside of the house is decorated how you would expect is from an old lady. The furniture and lights feels very cozy. Looking around I can't find much electronics. The couch is facing a impressive looking fireplace instead of the usual modern TV. Two walls of the room are filled with bookshelf's and in the corner is an old phonograph instead of an radio.
I keep looking around while mom returns from the kitchen with a wet washcloth to place on grandma's forehead. I find a picture of dad in a green uniform and turn to mom. "Mom did you knowthat dad was a part of the junior scouts?"
"Yes I know but don't ask him about it, its not one of his happiest memories" she answers with a sad tone.
"Why?What happened?" I ask as I'm curious.
"They... The other kits muzzled and beat him" she answers honestly.
"Oh sorry I..." I was interrupted by grandmas groaning "Marry is that you? You won't believe what I just dreamed, the wife of my Nicky appeared with my grandson and she was a bun..." she stops as she sees that it is the bunny from her dream she is talking to and not Marry.
I walk over and hug mom from the side and she just breaks an honest smile and says "Hi mother in law, we thought we'd come over for a visit"
"I have a grandson and my Nicky married a police girl? I'm really not dreaming?"
I walk over and sit on grandma's lap and she hugs me from behind. "I'm not dreaming this" she says as she caresses my head.
"Its real and Nick is doing fine, but haven't you watched any news lately?" My mother ask.
"I stopped watching and listening to the news many years ago. After we had that quarrel, I've tried for years to find Nick. But every time I got close to finding him with some lead of him doing shady business, it turned into a dead end. At some point I gave up on finding him as he obviously didn't want to be found. As time went on I got scarred I would see his face or hear his name in some news report saying my little boy died in some dark street at night." Grandma explained.
"Well about 8 years ago, his face did appear on the news. He helped me in finding 15 missing mammals and solve the case about predators going savage due to the Nighthowlers" Mom shyly told her.
"What? Nicky helped the police solve such a dangerous case? How did that happen?"
"I may or may not have blackmailed him into helping me as he was the only lead I had" mom said blushing embarrassingly.
Suddenly grandma breaks out into heavy laughter. "I can imagine him giving you a hard time for that, he can be pretty childish"
"Yeah he did, but within the 48 hours we were together he became the mammal I would trust with watching my back without a second thought. A
nd afterwards I invited him to become my partner. He..."
"My Nicky is a police officer?!" Grandma interrupts. I pull out my phone, search through the pictures until I find one of mom and dad in front of their police cruiser with dad wearing his shades while putting an arm around mom and hold it up to grandma. She stops caressing my head to take the phone and stares at the bright colourful screen of the device. After 2 minutes she finally manages to free herself from the photo and looks back at mom with her mouth gaping open.
"He's the best partner I could wish for. He graduated the Zootopia Police Academy as top of his class and is currently one of the top officers of Precinct 1."
Grandma start to cry again after hearing this. "Oh I'm so glad. After what those kits did to him when he tried to join the scouts, I though he would never really trust anyone again and try to be more than what they saw in him."
"After half a year together as partners, Nick asked me out and not even a year later we were already married. He was a huge dork trying to propose to me and I just said yes before he even managed to stutter together half the question. Shortly after we found out that I was pregnant with Jack, even though the doctors said there was not much hope for that to happen." mom confesses with a warm smile.
Grandma tightens the hug a bit and then releases me to stand up. She walks over to mom and pulls her into an loving embrace. "It must have been hard on you two, no you three. There must have been many that didn't approve of your relationship. But I thank you with all my hearth that you pulled my Nick out of his dark lifestyle and kept staying with him and love him for who he really is. Thank you! Thank you so much! Grandma says as she starts crying again.
Both mothers keep crying in each others arms for a couple of minutes until they separate. "So where is my Nicky at the moment and why is he not here?
Mom's face turns into a frown "Actually we had a big quarrel just a couple hours ago"
"About what?Sweetheart." Grandma ask with a puzzled expression.
"About you. I tried to find you. Nick...He refuses to face his past and talk about you, so when he found out I was searching for you behind his back he got angry and stormed out of our house"
"Oh I should never have told him to not come back" the elderly fox with a worried expression says.
"Grandma, does dad know that you're living here?" I ask her.
She looks at me with a questioning look and says "I don't if he's still the Nick I knew then I don't thinkhe would ignore everything that connects to me to not think about the problem".
"Good, then lets gamble on that and get him here" I grin as I take out my phone.
"What?How do you want to get him here? I don't think he wants to see me at the moment." I hear my mom asking as I search through my contacts.
"You underestimate how much dad loves you" I say as the smirk on my face grows. I put a finger infront of my muzzle to signal the two to stay quite and start dialling dad's phone.
I take a deep breath and dad picks up his phone "Dad! Dad!? Please you must come quickly!" I almost scream into the phone.
"Jack? Jack, what happened? Are you okay?" I can hear his voice grow worried.
"Mom is.. Mom and I went to one of her friends to talk and she... She collapsed! There is soo much...Please hurry!
"Where are you at the moment? I'll beas quick as possible!"
"We're at..." I gave him the address and he stopped the call as soon as I finished. I turn around to see two shocked females staring at me. 'Oh shit'
" Jack Savirous Wilde! How can you just trick your father into believing I got hurt?! Also won't he find it weird that you called him instead of a hospital?" Mom shouts at me with a serious, angry face.
"Sorry mom. But if I would have just asked him normally he would have gotten suspicious. Also I don't think he can think about anything but you right now." I apologise with droopy ears.
Mom lets out a deep sigh and Grandma starts speaking "He is right sweetheart, Nick is not stupid, he would not show up if he smells a trap" Mom lets out another sigh and nods her head in an approving manner.
A couple minutes later I'm standing outside the main door and see our car coming to a screeching halt on the street in front of me. Dad jumps out of the car looking around in a panic.
"Over here dad! Hurry!" I shout in his direction. As soon as he sees me, he sprints towards me.
"Where is your mother?"he asks me in panic.
"Inside!" I say while pointing into the house. He storms past me into the house and I can hear him scream worriedly "Judy!". I follow him and lock the door behind me. "Sorry dad but you have to face this" I whisper to myself. As I make my way to the now petrified fox that is standing in the door to the living room.
A/N: I had a busy week so this chapter took me bit longer. Also I have to thank Dumb Swede proofreading. So this chapter should be better grammar wise than the last ones. Thanks for reading and as always leave me some feedback in the reviews.